[Az-Geocaching] Geocaching Makes the News

[Mark Heitowit]

Check out this link.

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=72844738-37da-419d-9281-ecef2643e236

Team Tierra Buena wrote:

>USC-Aiken students discover body 
>Web posted Saturday, February 28, 2004 at 10:59 p.m.
>By Peter G. Gilchrist | South Carolina Bureau 
>AIKEN - Two USC-Aiken students walked into Hitchcock Woods early
>Saturday morning on a high-tech treasure hunt and stumbled into a real
>mystery. 
>Tim Meesseman and Carl Williams, both 20, were using a global
>positioning system to find hidden items in an adventure game known as
>geocaching. 
>Instead they found the remains of a skeleton. 
>"At first I saw a skull and then I looked and saw a few decomposing
>bones next to it," Mr. Meesseman said. "We couldn't believe it." 
>The two were searching near Dribble Road, using the GPS to find the
>longitude and latitude of the hidden cache. The coordinates are found on
>a Web site, www.geocaching.com, and 28 caches are hidden in the
>Aiken-Augusta area. 
>
>"After I saw the bones, we saw a pair of Nike tennis shoes about five
>feet from the skull," Mr. Meesseman said. "It looked like they were from
>the 1980's or something. It had definitely been there a while." 
>Lt. Michael Frank, spokesman for the Aiken County Sheriff's Office, said
>it is unclear how long the remains had been in the woods, but said an
>autopsy and a forensic reconstruction will be done to try to identity
>the person. 
>"Right now we don't know much. There wasn't enough information at the
>scene to determine if foul play was involved," he said. "It could be
>weeks before we know more." 
>Patrick King, of Aiken, a regular on the geocache circuit, said he'd
>heard of unusual finds during hunts, but nothing like this. 
>"I've heard of people finding strange things like underwear, but I don't
>think I've ever heard of anyone finding a body." 
>--From the Saturday, February 28, 2004 online edition of the Augusta
>(GA) Chronicle
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